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"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."
Idea

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
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"I'm playin' the music I like."
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"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
Time

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
Pretty

"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
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"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
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"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
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"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
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"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
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"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
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"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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